App Chat

After a brief summer break, App Friday is back and gearing up for a fantastic kick-off to the new school year with a launch center designed to showcase new and newly updated apps from family-friendly app developers. App Friday highlights educational apps each week on the App Friday website and Facebook page. In order to be included in App Friday, the app must be good quality, ad-free with no lite versions, and created by an independent app development company of less than five people.

App Friday originated as part of the MOMS With Apps developer community, a group of family-friendly app developers seeking to increase visibility of kids’ educational apps. It has since expanded to include handcrafted apps from indie developers from around the world. It is brought to us each week by volunteers George Karavias of Anlock Apps, Marcel Widarto of SoGaBee Labs, Garry Froehlich of JellyBean Tunes, and Lorraine Akemann of MOMS With Apps. App Friday relies on the support and cross-promotion of independent developers from all over the globe. Developers who are interested in having their apps featured on App Friday can apply on the App Friday website.

We are really excited to have recently released the update to Felt Board app for the iPad. We are very grateful to our friends and colleagues who have helped us beta test the app and also for reviewers, educators and parents who have come forward with suggestions over the past year for improvements to the app. Large app updates can be a lengthy process, and we really appreciate your patience and support.

We are also extremely grateful for the new and updated reviews of the app in iTunes. This helps tremendously!!!

from gr8fulmama:

This past week Felt Board has been prominently featured in the Kid’s Category of the App Store in Ages 6-8 and also in Create & Play. It can also be found in the Education category recommendations Apps for Every Grade: Preschool- literacy.

-Improvements to the user interface including simplified attaching of smaller items to larger ones

-New way to delete items

A second large update to Felt Board is being planned for the spring of 2014. This update will include even more recommendations we have received over the past year – including bringing Felt Board to the iPhone, so stay tuned!